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Mac-drive is slowwww
Hi
Installed the Mac-drive software on one of my machines – now it has gone very low in speed – taking 14-24 hours to copy a 128gB SSD disk via e-sata or usb2. I cannot install it on another machine because I only have license to the “slow” machine. Any idears how to change the license to another machine – I’m stocked with this software to use Black Magic Hyper deck Shuttle…..Found out that the software could be deactivated and activated on another machine – hope it works on my old HP
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I would recommend you look at Transmac software as a replacement for MacDrive. It’s much better in my experience.
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Yes you are supposed to be able to transfer the license. You can also buy a 2-computer license for not much more than single license.
I had exactly the same problem with my AJA KiPro drives until I tried connecting them directly via SATA (a method NOT endorsed by AJA). Now I get quite reasonable transfer times out of them.
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There is a big difference between the two. MacDrive is invisible to the user for most file operations. Transmac is separate program that you have to run every time you want to access a Mac-formatted drive. Its interface looks a lot like the Windows Explorer. Both are somewhat slower at copying files than a “normal” Windows file copy. That’s just the nature of the extra software layer that’s needed to read and write Mac-formatted drives under Windows.
Other than that, they both seem to do the job for most people.
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Seems to be a computer problem esata/usb2 transfer 4-5 mb/s – works fine on usb2 on my old HP. I’ll look into it.
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I remember reading somewhere that certain controllers (Marvell?) have quirks with SSD-disks connected externally. Esata should of course be much faster than USB 2.0 Or do you see this effect ONLY with Mac-Formated SSDs? Maybe they were not properly aligned when formating in Apple? Or did you format the disks via MacDrive? There was a acknowlegded MacDrive 9.0 bug whilst formatting but that has been fixed, and I believe it was for mixed formats NFTS/GPT…
In any case it would be good to hear if you found a solution to this. Everyone on the block is lusting after SSD-Disks these days…!
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Have same problem with MacDrive. Trying to take files off a drobo that was mac formatted.
MacDrive sees the drive just fine. But transfer off it is a labour intensive 10MBps.PC is a new one with win 7 pro. The drive I am transferring to is a seagate 7200 3TB internally installed on SATA – and was bought new in Feb 2013.
I have changed the firewire driver to the legacy version – got a minimal increase from 7 – 8 MBps to the 10.
Then changed to the ubicore driver – and no difference.I tried transmac – and once installed it could recognise the drobo as a disk – but could not connect to it – stating “disk access error” so never got it to work.
I am waiting for the folk at mediafour support to respond again – having responded once to recognise my request, the immediate was to ask if I had tried and alternative connection.
Yes – tried firewire and usb – same result.
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Having emptied the mass storage device on the Firewire – I continued using MacDrive to empty some other archive folders off separate drives – this time using an external esata docking station.
The drive I am taking stuff off is a 7200 / 6GBp/s and its feeding a PC formatted 7200 / 6GB/ps drive – via a sata cable.
MacDrive is maintaining a rate of 116MB p/s – which is way better.
I am persuaded the problem was not with MacDrive but with Firewire – even with the ubicore driver.
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